A leading Boston (U.S.A.) newspaper to hand by last mail devotes three columns of its space to a description of New Zealand phormium tenax. An article from its Melbourne correspondent discusses the past and present of the flax industry, and expresses the opinion that there is no reason, why New Zealand hemp should "not be able to compete successfully with sisal in supplying the re-, quirement of binder-twine and cordage manufacturers. There is a. suggestion that the United States should import, flax plants from New Zealand and enter into the cultivation of phormium tenax and the manufacture of hemp as a substitute for aisal in the malting of binder .twine. ■ ■
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Evening Post, Volume xciv, Issue 73, 24 September 1917, Page 7
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